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Monday, October 22, 2012

Some Stitching Stuff

Gentle Friends thanks again for stopping by my little Blog. The weekend was quite nice, as it continued to get cooler Friday and Saturday... after our couple of days of warm weather. And, last night it started to rain!! WooHoo!! I love the cold and rain and now the Fall has set in - I think our winter has begun a bit early, I can enjoy the Autumnal weather!! As you know I am a bit off my nut and odd, but I do love the cold wet weather we have out here.

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After running our regular errands Saturday morning and Thrifting/Estate Saleing - then getting some chores around the house done I settled in to finish up November Cottage. I eventually completed it but not after changing my mind about a dozen time on some of the colours..... here's a snap....

As you can tell I did away with all the pink and shades of pink settling on a gold and yellow theme. Since October was all shades of orange I thought it would be nice to have the golds represented. The floss conversion was as follows...

I did end up using some of the recommended DMC 436 for the acorn bodies and the Turkey body, for the ground I used my lightest skein of GAST Brandy. I used 3031 for the acorn caps and the other recommended places, I used DMC B5200 as the white. For Harvest Moon my conversion was to CC Sassy Brass - the leaves I used Sassy Brass and CC Amber Waves. I kept the WDW Mocha and WDW Kudzu and converted WDW Grapefruit to WDW Indian Summer. Over all I am very happy with the results. Here's an overall shot of the piece.....

I heard from Carol, that my HOE "Hometown Ornament" arrived. Here's a snap...

I could have chosen California or one of these... Mississippi, Maryland or even North Carolina... as they have all been my scenes of my hometown at one time in the past!! But, I ended up choosing a Florida themed ornament. The design is from Nouveau Encore Designs and was a great piece to work on!! Worked into the design are a palm tree, flamingo and "Star Fish:" - as little symbols of Florida. I used the recommended floss and stitched it on a piece of mystery 32ct linen.

Out of all your cottages, I think November looks the best! Your choice of colors is right on IMO. Very nice exchange piece you stitched too. I think we caught some of your rain early this morning. Thanks for sending it our way as it's always good to get rain! Have a super day Edgar!

Oh Edgar, I love your cottages...I'm pulling my sucker out and blowing the dust off this weekend. Finger's crossed... :)Yours is stunning! A true work of art! I love your hometown ornament that you sent to Carol. How cute! (and perfectly finished too)!!

I think this is my favorite color change you've done so far. The composition's just great. Weren't you hoping for snowy fir trees for December??? Excellent! Love the ornament...it's a homage to your hometown and a rap star! =D

your cottage sampler is looking amazing! I can't wait to see it all finished.Love your Florida ornament too. What a cleaver idea, I'm sure she love it!Enjoy your Fall weather. I am whining about it a bit, because I do love summer. However sitting by a fire and stitching is nice too, so I'll guess I'll try be happy about it. Hope all is well. I was sitting on Daytona beach last week, and thought of you. I enjoyed seeing all of your pictures from your recent visit. What a great place it is!Take Care!

I do love both the cottage and the ornament! Great color choices. I think that to enjoy living on the west coast, the Northern part anyway, you have to like cool weather and rain!! Our rain is thankfully back after over 81 days with only 6/100 inch of rain!

I just love the way your finishing came out on the ornament. If you don't mind, I would love to know how you did the black back part. Is that a piece of felt? I ask because I want to do something similar, but in a horizontal orientation.

I love what you did with the November house..makes so much more sense to have gold and orange than pink...I don't think I have seen anything pink this fall...ok, maybe my painted toe nails, but I digress! :)

Hey, I love the Florida ornament...I'm gonna have to hit the streets and locate that one. I grew up there, so anything Florida always makes me happy.